Michael Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., said Sunday that there could be a “potential” for “continued talks” with Iran about the U.S.-Israeli conflict against the country after Vice President Vance said no progress was made in the direction of a peace agreement in recent negotiations. “When you said the talks are still going...
Lawmakers are set to return to Washington this week as questions over future pay for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees — including Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers — loom over efforts to end the partial shutdown. The impasse follows a last-minute split before the Easter recess, when Senate Republicans advanced a measure to fund most of...
In one of Europe's most consequential elections of the year, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded to the party led by Péter Magyar, ending his run as Hungary's leader after more than 16 years. With 60 percent of the votes counted, Magyar's Tisza Party had more than 52 percent of the vote compared with Orbán’s...
President Trump on Tuesday said there was no evacuation plan for Americans in the Middle East because the joint strikes launched on Iran by the U.S. and Israel “happened very quickly.” “We thought and I thought, maybe more so than most, I could ask [Secretary of State Marco Rubio], but I thought we were going...
Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to President Trump, is describing his "utterly surreal" escape from the Middle East amid the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. Bruesewitz was in Doha, Qatar, "just as the Iranian attacks erupted, leaving me stranded amid the chaos," he wrote in a Monday post on the social platform X that included video...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) will speak with reporters Tuesday as Democrats feel pressure from Republicans to support legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following the U.S. strikes in Iran over the weekend. Democrats have thus far held firm to their demands for reforms within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said the Trump administration will move to offset oil price increases as strikes on Iran jolt the global market. “We knew that going in would be a factor, and so we have a program in place that will begin to be implemented by [Energy] Secretary [Chris] Wright, [Treasury]...
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned Tehran's drone strikes against the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh as conflict in the Middle East heats up following U.S. strikes on Iran. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expresses its rejection and condemnation in the strongest terms of the treacherous Iranian attack that targeted the building of the United States Embassy...
President Trump on Tuesday will host German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House, as the U.S. military operation in Iran is ongoing and Europe is mixed in its support. The State Department has warned U.S. citizens in 14 Middle Eastern countries to leave immediately and has closed its embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company has added further protections to its agreement with the Pentagon to bring its AI models to the military’s classified network. The latest additions come as the ChatGPT maker faced pushback over the deal, which came on the heels of the Trump administration’s announcement Friday that it...
President Trump said late Monday that the U.S. has “virtually unlimited” munitions to fight wars “forever," just days after the U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes in Iran. “The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better — As was stated to me today, we have...
President Trump’s attack on Iran is confusing the MAGA base that once bragged that he never started any wars, testing the limits of their trust in the president’s foreign policy judgement. There are, of course, many Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) who have long advocated for the U.S. to take decisive action in Iran and take out the...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will face questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning on oversight of the department as its funding lapse nears the three-week mark. Democrats have largely maintained that they will not support a deal to reopen DHS without reforms to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics...
Early Saturday morning, wearing a white baseball cap, President Trump informed the American people, “A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran.” That’s only part of the story. Trump did not tell the people that this war was unnecessary, was illegally begun without congressional authorization or even consultation and had...
